Mount Palmerston

Mount Palmerston
Mount Palmerston (Map)
Mount Palmerston (Gazetteer)
Located in	Palmerston's Reach
Ports	Port Palmerston
Shops	Daily Bread Malebolge Excavations
Shipyard	No
Data ID	138473

Mount Palmerston. It lies on the Palmerston's Reach and is an island with a volcano, fire and brimstone, lots of brimstone.

Port description

Brimstone. Always brimstone.

Port interactions

Mount Palmerston

Location description

Sullen lights glow green at the jetty's edge. Behind the port buildings, the island is is knee-deep in ash. There are ruins here and there, of houses destroyed by fire. Far above, the mountain's top flickers red: just for an instant.

Interactions

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Explore the island Tangles of thorned scrub climb the rocky slopes of the volcano. There are ruins here and there, of houses destroyed by fire.	Something Awaits You ≥ 1 and ≤ 25	Triggers event: A Blemmigan Colony event
	Something Awaits You ≥ 26 and ≤ 50	Triggers event: A Privateer Encampment
	Something Awaits You ≥ 51 and ≤ 69	A vista The zee opens out beneath a high cliff - Triggers event: The View from Above
	Something Awaits You ≥ 70 and ≤ 85	A shape hurries up the path to you "Excuse me - excuse me - juzzt a moment of your time - " Triggers event: A Buzzing Beggar
	Something Awaits You ≥ 86 and ≤ 100	Running water Fresh water! A welcome sound - Triggers event: An Oasis of Sorts
Engage an Officer: the Merciless Modiste “Ah, yes, you will do nicely. I need a ship, dear heart, and I rather flatter myself that you need me.”	Merciless Modiste ≤ 0 Learning About: The Merciless Modiste ≤ 0 Bale of Parabola-Linen ≥ 5	Welcome aboard! The Modiste neither packs lightly nor suffers fools gladly. "One scratch! One solitary scratch on my steamer trunks from you snivelling little homunculi and I take the whole blessed lot of you apart at the seams!" She turns back, her lips curling into a smile. "As I was saying, Captain, you really must try to take the waters here before our cruise. Most invigorating, brimstone." +1 x Merciless Modiste	Game note: The Merciless Modiste is a First Officer who increases Iron, Veils and Hearts.
Take note of a veiled woman A middle-aged woman in a veiled hat is staring at you, waiting for you to notice and listen to her.	Under the Unterzee ≥ 1 Zubmarine ≥ 1 Aigul: Commissioned to Retrieve a Regret ≤ 0	The Imperious Sister's Tale She begins commandingly, as though you had met at a Salon in London, as though there were no burning mountain at her back and as though you were socially just a little her inferior. "Thank goodness, someone who might help me!" she says. "I have been searching everywhere -- my brother is troubled, you see, troubled by some past difficulties. I came to Mount Palmerston because I thought possibly they had his... well, his Soul!" She drops her voice to a whisper on the last words. "But it isn't here. And now there's something else I must try, and you have a Zubmarine!" Aigul: Commissioned to Retrieve a Regret = 5 [Stopped to listen to the Imperious Sister] Triggers event: Receiving a commission from the Imperious Sister
Chat to the port-folk about the Brimstone Convention There was a revolution in Hell: and the aristocracy of devils fled here. Here, they plot in exile.	0 x A Port Report: Mt Palmerston	A shrug and a curse “They don't do us any harm. They stay up there, and we stay down here. If Hell's fighting itself, that's good for us all, isn't it?” +1 x A Port Report: Mt Palmerston	Bring the Port Report to The Admiralty Survey Office in London for +1 x Admiralty's Favour and +40 x Echo.
Deliver your smuggled souls A hooded figure with a lantern waits at the far end of the quay.	1 x Unstamped Crate of Brilliant Souls Favours: A Proposal from a Man of Business = 2	A hurried exchange You give the hooded shape a sign of recognition. It hisses the reply you expected. You hand over the crate, and receive a chitty marked with thief-sign... -1 x Unstamped Crate of Brilliant Souls Favours: A Proposal from a Man of Business = 3	Game note: You'll receive the promised remuneration in London.
	1 x Crate of Brilliant Human Souls Favours: A Proposal from a Man of Business = 2	A hurried exchange You give the hooded shape a sign of recognition. It hisses the reply you expected. You hand over the crate, and receive a chitty marked with thief-sign... -1 x Crate of Brilliant Human Souls Favours: A Proposal from a Man of Business = 3	Game note: You'll receive the promised remuneration in London.
Find your contact You have a rendezvous in the ruined granary up on the headland, where the last generation of farmers died in the volcano's flames.	Menaces: Soulless ≤ 0 Objective: an Admiralty Commission = 7	Hello, hello. I have zomething for you - A cowled and buzzing shape clasps your elbow. It whispers in your ear. Its breath is lava and old brass, and a queasy vibration shudders through you where its gloved appendage has taken hold. You have what you came for. Back aboard ship, quickly. Your vision blurs. Perhaps you are unwell. +1 x Terror +1 x Strategic Information Objective: an Admiralty Commission = 0
	Menaces: Soulless ≥ 1 Objective: an Admiralty Commission = 7	Hello, my zoulless friend. A cowled and buzzing shape clasps your elbow. It whispers in your ear. Its breath is lava and old brass, and a queasy vibration shudders through you where its gloved appendage has taken hold. You have what you came for, and something more - nasty, barbed little details about sin and time. +1 to +3 x Terror +1 x Strategic Information +1 to +5 x Fragment Objective: an Admiralty Commission = 0
Put a blemmigan ashore Surely it'll flourish here?	1 x Docile Blemmigan	Mushroom songs The blemmigan bounces happily up the pumice slopes, warbling as it goes. That warbling is answered as it climbs higher. There are already blemmigans here, somewhere... -1 x Docile Blemmigan
Dig among the ruins Perhaps the villagers left valuables behind. You could pick over their remains to see what you might find. (You ghoul.)	Luck challenge (60% to win) 2 x Supplies	Failed event
		Emptiness The creases of your palms are grey with ash. Your crew coughs incessantly. You have found nothing but ruined fields and empty shelves. -2 x Supplies +5 x Terror +1 x Memory of Distant Shores
		Rare failed event (50%)
		A diary of dreams One wall of a barn still stands. Someone has gouged words into it, in one of the lesser alphabets of Hell - an account of a dream of the Usurper Sun, of its gear-teeth sunk deep into the roots of time, of its servants in robes of gold and amber, of its beauty and its lies. -2 x Supplies +5 x Terror +1 x Intriguing Snippet +1 x Memory of Distant Shores
		Successful event
		A crimson cache In a dry well choked with ash behind a shattered farmhouse, you find two casks of zzoup. Emergency supplies, or hidden treasure? No one will ever return for them. -2 x Supplies +5 x Terror +1 x Memory of Distant Shores +2 x Zzoup
		Rare successful event (50%)
		A cellarful of bones How many of them died down here? You could bury them in the ash, but they're so choked and jumbled, you might as well leave them here below. The whole island is the unholiest imaginable ground, anyway. At least you have souvenirs. Three grinning skulls and a carven crooked-cross. -2 x Supplies +10 x Terror +1 x Memory of Distant Shores +1 x Outlandish Artefact +3 x Lamentable Relic

Triggered interactions

These only trigger when you are docked in Mount Palmerston.

Go up to the crater

See Go up to the crater page.

This interaction appears if you have the following:

Something Awaits You ≥ 1

The Wistful Deviless

See The Wistful Deviless page.

This interaction appears if you have the following:

Encounters with the Wistful Deviless ≥ 1

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Daily Bread • Malebolge Excavations